Dec 22 Stranger Things & Back to the Future 2

This is a beloved technique from this Third Golden Era of Hollywood (1977-1993): the simplified charting of the complex narrative moment. Everything's starting to get wild-n-wacky for the characters, reality seems to be slipping out of control.

So a character stops the action & draws out exactly what's going on - for everybody.

There's something pleasurable about this.

Like we're being treated to a mid-movie lo-fi hyper-analogue performance cartoon that advances the story.